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The Turncoats Pfc Otho Bell January 23 Bleak Anniversary
This closeup profiles Otho Bell one of 21 American GIs who went to China during the Korean War era then chose to return to the U.S. His story details family ties, his upbringing in Mississippi, and pressure from Chinese Communists that swayed his earlier stance, with his wife Jewell and child Paula facing the long wait for his homecoming.
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the Turncoats
Pfc
Otho Bell
Bell
Virginia Pasley
NEA Service
Mississippi
Pe Wrens
Otho
Elbert A. Bell
Korea
Farrar, Straus and Cudahy
Fort Lewis
Wash
Jewell
Pusan
Paula
Washington
Defense Department
Edward Dickenson
Dickenson
Cracker
Batchelor
Jewell Bell
U. S
China